| #### Chapter 22 |

| #### #### May we think that the mode of the soul's presence to body is that of the presence of light to the air? #### This certainly is presence with distinction: the light penetrates through and through, but nowhere coalesces; the light is the stable thing, the air flows in and out; when the air passes beyond the lit area it is dark; under the light it is lit: we have a true parallel to what we have been saying of body and soul, for the air is in the light quite as much as the light in the air. #### Plato therefore is wise when, in treating of the All, he puts the body in its soul, and not its soul in the body, and says that, while there is a region of that soul which contains body, there is another region to which body does not enter- certain powers, that is, with which body has no concern. And what is true of the All-Soul is true of the others. #### There are, therefore, certain soul-powers whose presence to body must be denied. #### The phases present are those which the nature of body demands: they are present without being resident- either in any parts of the body or in the body as a whole. #### For the purposes of sensation the sensitive phase of the soul is present to the entire sensitive being: for the purposes of act, differentiation begins; every soul phase operates at a point peculiar to itself. ####  |